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Synonyms: Adjective
bodacious, dishy, hot, luscious, sexy, toothsome
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The house is in a highly desirable location. The new stove has many desirable features. the qualities that make a desirable business partner The experiment did not achieve a desirable result. a beautiful and desirable woman
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Week-by-week, the start of school, the NFL season, the baseball playoffs, the arrival of cold nights in the mountains and eventual shorter days translates to fewer people at many of the most desirable regions in California. — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, "As crowds diminish, Prairie Creek Redwoods stands tall," 21 Aug. 2019 Thanks to its prime perch in the center of downtown Tacoma, Hotel Murano is in walking distance from the city’s most desirable cultural attractions. — Elycia Rubin, Los Angeles Times, "So long, Mom and Dad; we’re taking the grandkids gramping," 1 Aug. 2019 While the marketplace might reduce the demand for beef, governments could also take steps to make other menu items more desirable, according to the report. — Jen Christensen, CNN, "To help save the planet, cut back to a hamburger and a half per week," 17 July 2019 Some of California’s most high-risk areas in the decades to come — the beautiful rolling hills inland and sparkling coast — are among the most desirable places to live. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Column: Climate change and California’s coming insurance crisis," 28 July 2019 Some fast growing fall crops like lettuce and radishes can be planted into late September, but many desirable fall crops like broccoli and carrots need several months of prime-growing conditions to mature before frost and low light levels set in. — Hilary Dahl, Good Housekeeping, "How to Plant a Fall Garden and Grow Late-Season Crops," 1 July 2019 Corn is a desirable crop to feed lactating cows and growing beef cattle. — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, "Weather woes cause American corn farmers to throw in the towel," 18 June 2019 An indoor aquatics facility is desirable by a broad spectrum of residents. — Peter Marteka, courant.com, "Residents begin fundraising effort for proposed indoor aquatics center in Glastonbury," 15 July 2019 Whether our institutions could be transformed enough to one day permit the same individuals to return to the same workplaces and participate in different dynamics—and whether that would be at all desirable—is hard to answer. — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, "Notes on Cancel Culture," 1 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The undesirables are migrants or refugees, the desirables are expats or cosmopolitans. — Ben Huberman, Longreads, "An Expat by Any Other Name (Is Sometimes a Digital Nomad)," 21 July 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'desirable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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